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🔗 Steve Blank - Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival

If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true.

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The bottleneck is no longer engineering. It’s moving up the stack to judgment, customer insight for desired outcomes and distribution.

Both true - and in the apps we are building there is heavy reliance on AI to do the ‘heavy’ lifting - I mean - we humans aren’t designed to lift heavy things (speaking from personal experience some 30 years ago) - BUT we are awfully good at being human - which our apps definitely lean into.

And then there is this …

.. I mean these two screens are hardly doing the same job are they❗️❓

… and it isn’t AI killing the dashboard - it’s designs like this that are killing the dashboard.

🔗 Apple’s real intelligence? Winning the waiting game | The Macalope

We’ve gone from “AI does everything so we can now lay off all our staff!” to “We have to lay off all our staff because AI is sucking all our resources.” It’s almost as if AI is being as an excuse for layoffs.

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Ha-ha! That would be silly! Because, in reality, we know that there really is no problem that cannot be solved by laying off vast swaths of the people who have devoted their careers to you. It’s just math.

🔗📸 Waffle Shop 1950 From Shorpy

Just a wonderful image from the folks at Shorpy.

🔗📼 Makes sense even today

🔗 The Last Quiet Thing | Terry Godier

Absolutely wonderful opening … superb and engaging layout .. do kept going .. and have to say the end was just as great … but there is a middle bit … quite a large middle bit - that is stuff I’ve read before .. we all (should) know .. that I found uninteresting and repetitive and (should ❓) be deleted.

But that shouldn’t stop you getting his RSS app which is great.

🔗 Reuters tries to out Banksy: … | Alan Jacobs

.. what Alan said.

🔗Paperwork - Futility Closet

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

💬 Ralph Waldo Emerson

🔗 Apple Music launches AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare them.

.. and thats the rub.

🔗 The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!

I’ll be damned if I am not interested. And I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what he does next. That doesn’t mean I need to gulp his MBA-speak as wisdom. I will call the game as I see it being played.

💬 Om

🔗🎵😂 Africa by Toto with the lyrics switched out for the countries.